# Your First post...? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 19, 2006, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741 "2006-01-19T23:43:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/41 "2006-01-21T19:55:04Z")
> [@JelleyBean](#): > > I didn’t know goats did origami. 😃 I know what you’re thinking – how the hell can you do origami if you don’t have opposable thumbs, right? C’mon down to Room Four and we’ll show you… ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/42 "2006-01-21T20:54:01Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > My first post was in response to Cecil’s column on same-sex marriage, pretty much doing my best to smack him down. My post garnered a response from Cecil himself, which lent me a certain mystique which lasted all of about 3 days. I still think I got the best of the exchange. One of my first posts was about glass being a liquid. This was back in the early ages of the forums here before it had been discussed to “Three words ending with -gry” standards. Anyway, I posted under the impression that glass was a liquid, someone said it wasn’t, I cited Cecil and eventually the thread got something of a recant from the Master himself. The earliest post I remember from myself is asking who Caesar Rodney was and why he was on my (Delaware state) quarters. There might be older, but Search only will take me back to April 2000. I’d do it the same now as I did then – I always appreciated the GQ portion of the site as the “purist” ---
**Author:** ![JelleyBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ebca7d/32.png) [@JelleyBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JelleyBean)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/43 "2006-01-21T22:12:52Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Welcome, \*_JellyBean_! > > We have refreshments in Room Four for all the newcomers. Only two posts, and already my name is misspelled!! Not to rag on you Sunspace, but after the recent Pit thread it’s kinda funny. I feel like I’m in the right place. 🆒 So, how do I get to room 4? Do I bring my own paper? I can’t wait to see goat origami. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/44 "2006-01-21T22:49:01Z")
I first posted when the board was on AOL. I think I jumped in on a thread about Gatorade. I had the basic story right, but I had a handful of details wrong. Several posters took me apart. Rather than getting mad, I acknowledged my errors and the folks who had spotted them. We didn’t have **The BBQ Pit** then, and we didn’t have the level of civility we have now. There was flaming in all areas. There was an irascible cat called **Dutch Courage** who rarely had a kind word to say. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/45 "2006-01-22T00:19:44Z")
> [@JelleyBean](#): > > Only two posts, and already my name is misspelled!! Not to rag on you Sunspace, but after the recent Pit thread it’s kinda funny. I feel like I’m in the right place. 🆒 > > So, how do I get to room 4? Do I bring my own paper? I can’t wait to see goat origami. :eek: Welcome Jelleybeing, gellybean, jellobeen, JellyBN, uh what was it again. … … … Oh **JelleyBean** 😃 : what part of Jersey are you from? Jim (in Holmdel) ---
**Author:** ![Thalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@Thalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thalion)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/46 "2006-01-22T04:05:53Z")
My first post was a quick sympathy post on the anniversary of **Persephone’s** tragic death. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/47 "2006-01-22T07:01:19Z")
[I’m pretty sure this was my first post.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=2015492&postcount=3) Kinda nervy to jump right into it like I did in that thread, I guess. Funny coincidence: I was thinking about that thread just yesterday because Penn and Teller tackled it on an episode of Bullshit - _and_ they interviewed someone I spoke to when I was looking into magnet therapy. ---
**Author:** ![Auntbeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Auntbeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Auntbeast)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/48 "2006-01-22T07:52:24Z")
My first post. Still bothers me, really guys, the likelihood of it falling off are slim, no matter how much you tug at it, leave it the hell alone. but when I became a member, I’m pretty sure it was my Pit thread, since then, there’s no stopping me, I finally have a voice at the Dope. O/T Eleanor, as a long time lurker, I consider you a part of the gang. You are one of the “names I know.” Minor things that bother me (but apparently no one else) Views: 834 Posted By Auntbeast Irritants Men adjusting themselves. I am a poker dealer and as such I am at about crotch level to folks standing up and have really gotten annoyed at this. FYI, I am sympathetic to the physiological reasons… ---
**Author:** ![JimOfAllTrades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@JimOfAllTrades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimOfAllTrades)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/49 "2006-01-22T08:40:28Z")
My first post was back on the AOL board, about 10 years ago now, I guess. Someone had posted a question about time zones and something about China being 24 hours different than the USA because it was on the other side of the world. I replied along the lines that if they really thought China was 24 hours different, they should get a globe, start in the USA, and count 24 time zones around and see where they wound up, and that it was not going to be in China. If I had to do again, I might post a bit more of the actual situation and not just the clues. But I had been a fan of the Straight Dope newspaper column for several years by that time, and it did seem like a sort of typically snarky kind of answer Unca’ Cec might have given, so I guess I thought it would fit in better. ---
**Author:** ![Auntbeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Auntbeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Auntbeast)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/50 "2006-01-22T14:18:51Z")
My first post. Still bothers me, really guys, the likelihood of it falling off are slim, no matter how much you tug at it, leave it the hell alone. but when I became a member, I’m pretty sure it was my Pit thread, since then, there’s no stopping me, I finally have a voice at the Dope. O/T Eleanor, as a long time lurker, I consider you a part of the gang. You are one of the “names I know.” First Post: Minor things that bother me (but apparently no one else) Views: 834 Posted By Auntbeast Irritants Men adjusting themselves. I am a poker dealer and as such I am at about crotch level to folks standing up and have really gotten annoyed at this. FYI, I am sympathetic to the physiological reasons… ---
**Author:** ![Auntbeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Auntbeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Auntbeast)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/51 "2006-01-22T14:19:59Z")
And Voila! My first double post! Wheeeee! Ok Dopers, what is “room 4”? I know what Hi Opal is. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/52 "2006-01-22T18:26:06Z")
My first post, after lurking for years, was just the other day: [Modern experts on Greco-Roman mythology](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=354975) . Someone in GQ had asked about mythology experts, and I thought, “Wow, that’s me!” I was so excited I ran out and registered and replied, delighted to share my little corner of knowledge with the teeming millions. Unfortunately, the OP mistook the smiley of newbie modesty for a declaration of terminal stupidity. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/53 "2006-01-23T05:08:38Z")
Following in the same vein as JelleyBean (taking care to spell her name right 😉 ), this will be MY first post. I’ve been lurking for a few months…it was the whole lightbulb/potato thread that finally clinched it, and I signed up about…20 minutes…ago. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/54 "2006-01-23T06:50:15Z")
Welcome, **Dr. Drake** and\*\* LunaV\*\*! If you would care to follow the others to the reception? Just down the corridor to the left, in Room Four. 🙂 > [@JelleyBean](#): > > Only two posts, and already my name is misspelled!! Not to rag on you Sunspace, but after the recent Pit thread it’s kinda funny. I feel like I’m in the right place. > > So, how do I get to room 4? Do I bring my own paper? I can’t wait to see goat origami. You don’t need to bring anything. All is on the house. We do encourage patrons to use the shower caps, though. [sub] **twicks**? Everything’s all set, right? You remember that old Bugs Bunny cartoon with the carrot mine? Well, this is supposted to be li… \ …ul Bunya… \ moose \ torpedo \ …waveguide… \\ …power dissipation okay? And what about **Hal Briston**? With his new expertise, he will be a great help. Has he ever forgiven us for \ the walls? Oh, **LunaV** gets \ and it’s \ motorcycle \in the pantry.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/55 "2006-01-23T13:46:54Z")
> [@LunaV](#): > > Following in the same vein as JelleyBean (taking care to spell her name right 😉 ), this will be MY first post. > I’ve been lurking for a few months…it was the whole lightbulb/potato thread that finally clinched it, and I signed up about…20 minutes…ago. Welcome to the Boards LunaV. Enjoy the stay and beware the animals early on. Jim ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/56 "2006-01-23T15:01:39Z")
Why are we getting ads for surgical scrubs with cartoon characters on them? ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/57 "2006-01-23T15:13:18Z")
As far as I can tell, my first post was asking whatever happened to Chisanbop, that magical form of finger calculating they were teaching kids in the 70’s. It wasn’t a bad first post. It hadn’t already been asked and answered in Cecil’s columns or elsewhere on the boards. I never did get a good answer as to why it isn’t still being taught. I guess calculators are just cheaper, and Chisanbop is limited as to what sorts of calculations can be performed. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/58 "2006-01-24T00:21:11Z")
[Where did I find the Straight Dope?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=1193563&postcount=44) ---
**Author:** ![JelleyBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ebca7d/32.png) [@JelleyBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JelleyBean)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/59 "2006-01-24T00:27:37Z")
> [@What Exit?](#): > > \Oh **JelleyBean** 😃 : what part of Jersey are you from? > > Jim (in Holmdel) Jim, I’m in Woodbridge, right near the Mall. Of course being near a mall in New Jersey is kinda easy. Jody ---
**Author:** ![Mbossa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Mbossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mbossa)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741/60 "2006-01-24T03:41:25Z")
[My first post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=4040701&postcount=19) was probably the best post I’ve ever made on the Dope. Hell, I even got complemented by **Chronos** later in the thread! Although after rereading, I did make mistakes in it – the formal definition of an infinite limit to infinity doesn’t have _any_ epsilons or deltas in it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-post/340741.md?page=4)